WATCHING A MCCAIN RALLY ON CNN.

It's in Wisconsin.

The crowd behind him is all white and pretty full of old people. None of them look all that excited either (I take it back; one of them is "mad" about "socialists").

And jeez, he just looks awful. So old, so frail. Just awful.

And I understand that Palin is there, but she's not answering any of the questions about health care etc.

THE CRACK DEALERS ARE STILL IN BUSINESS.

Today I got this e-mail from Countrywide...that bastion of good corporate governance which holds my mortgage:

This Saturday, October 11, 2008
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"Because you've got a good solid 30 year fixed loan at a low rate and you make your payments on time, we wanna make sure you get rid of whatever equity you have left, which we know isn't much because the comparables in your neighborhood have dropped by 25-30 percent. Come on, the first one's free..."

I'VE SAID IT BEFORE...

Republicans/Conservatives think aggression (in some cases to point of murder) is funny.

I've looked in the soul of some Republicans and I've seen three letters: KKK.

I guess it's what I've always said: there are two kinds of Republicans, rich ones and stupid ones.

I am so sick of this half-insane old man and his neanderthal running mate. They CANNOT run this country. And after last night? I also think that John McCain doesn't have the, ahem, energy to be President. His physical condition is obviously tenuous. A vote for John McCain is a vote for Sarah Palin in black mourning clothes announcing her regime...

I STILL THINK IT WOULD BE FUNNY TO SEE...

...Obama do the whistle/BOOM! into his microphone to see McCain get all PTSD and lose his shit.

But this debate is better than the last one. The getting up and walking, and answering questions of Joe Sixpack instead of an old loser like Jim Lehrer and Brokaw, or a younger loser like Gwen Ifill.

YELLING OBSCENITIES AT THE TV SCREEN.

As I watch Richard Fuld, Lehman's CEO cry for Waxman's House committee.

He feels horrible. But he's wearing a suit that costs more than my monthly mortgage payment. He's so cry-baby that I keep waiting for him to, look up, snap his fingers and cue the violin player. It would be fitting.

Fuck him. Fuck his "I take responsibility". Fuck his "nobody coulda seen this coming." Fuck his, "It's the media's fault." "Fuck his "of course we were in the mortgage market." Fuck his "we reduced our exposure..."

Screw his "what happened to Lehman could have happened to anyone." No, it happened to an a-hole who doubled down on craptastic investments.

Fuck his 500-billion in compensation over the past ten years.

Where's his prison bitch name?

ON THE OTHER HAND...

There are all the heartening reports on Obama's GOTV campaigns.


And we're talking about a truly amazing political team supporting an absolutely astounding candidate. So who knows?

I'm watching CNN and they just played Palin in FLA (with Droopy the Dog and, we hope, soon-to-be exiled former Democrat Joe Lieberman) and all she did was, well, lie. I mean, not shade the truth: "Someone needs to ask Obama how he's going to pay for all his spending!" Umm...they have and he's answered pretty clearly.

Then they played Obama who talked about his own plan to make health care available.

The differences in tone, in timbre, in specifics were just so plain.

Will people really believe the Palin/McCain (let's face it; she's the more dynamic of the two here) negative campaign? Is that really going to work?

I think that people's feelings about the economy etc are so negative that more negativity will make them turn off the TV. I don't think that anyone but the GOP base will be interested in hearing about Ayers/Rev Wright/Liberal/Chicago politician etc etc.

CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD.

The feeling of doom about the election.

I guess I just don't trust that the American electorate is as "beyond race" as the polls indicate.

Is Obama's lead real in some of these states? Virginia? Pennsylvania? Colorado? Wisconsin?

Are the racists already counted in the GOP ranks? Or will the Tom Bradley-effect come into play?

Does Obama have to be up by 15 to win by 3?

All the GOP folk keep saying, "if he's so great, then why isn't Obama up by 15?" And the answer is pretty obvious: racism. Why can't we talk about this? Why can't we say, "if he were a white man, he'd be up by 15." Why can't we examine the code words that some McCain supporters use and call them for what they are?

I do fear that, on election day, a bunch of white voters will go behind the curtain and despite their statements that they'll vote for Obama.

On the other hand, the DOW is heading to 9800...

It'll be interesting to see how Obama responds to what promise to be a McCain temper tantrum tomorrow night.

[Oops...the DOW IS below 9800. It dropped 80 points in the time it took to write that last sentence.]

I hate that Obama has to make parts of himself invisible and agreeable to make some people comfortable.